Witness tells newspaper Brent ignored Brown’s screams for help

DALLAS – A witness to the fiery drunk-driving accident that claimed the life of Cowboys practice squad player Jerry Brown says she had to beg the driver of the car, Cowboys nose tackle Josh Brent, to intervene as his best friend screamed for help, the Dallas Morning News reported Tuesday.

Stacee McWilliams, a 40-year-old Irving resident, said she repeatedly pleaded with Brent to rescue Brown from Brent’s 2007 Mercedes, which was upside-down and on fire around 2 a.m. on the service road of State Highway 114 in Irving.

“Jerry alive. He was hurt. He was calling out, and his own friend walked away,” McWilliams told the newspaper.

“What I’ve been told is that Jerry Brown was never conscious after the accident,” Milner said. “…She better be careful with this one.”

McWilliams said she was on her way home from her birthday party when she noticed the wreck and stopped.

“I jumped out and ran out toward the wreck,” she said. “I yelled to (Brent), ‘Are you OK? Are you OK?’ And he told me he was fine. I was relieved because I thought it’s just a single-car accident, nobody’s hurt. And then fire sparked up from the car and got bigger and I started to hear screams.”

As the fire grew, she said she begged Bent to help the screaming passenger, but
Brent “looked at me and said, ‘He won’t get out of the car.’ And I said, ‘Get him out of the car. You have to save him.’ ”

McWilliams said she then went back to her car to get her phone. When she returned, Brown was lying in the middle of the road and Brent had walked away, the newspaper reported.

“He didn’t say, ‘Come on, hang in there,’ hold his hand,” she said. “That’s what upsets me the most at this point. He abandoned him.”